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Bruni, Lev (Aleksandrovich)
(b Malaya Vishera, province of Novgorod, 1894; d Moscow, 1948). Russian painter and graphic artist. He came from a well-established artistic family and after a brief involvement with avant-garde experimentation he returned to a figurative style. He trained in St Petersburg at Princess Tenisheva’s school (1904–9) and at the Academy of Arts (1909–12). He then studied under Henri Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris (1912–13). Paintings such as The Rainbow (1916; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.) show the influence of Cubism and Futurism. At this time his flat in Petrograd became a meeting-point for various members of the avant-garde, including Vladimir Tatlin. Under Tatlin’s influence, Bruni began making purely abstract reliefs and constructions. Painterly Work with Materials (1916, destr.; see Lodder, pl. 1.19), which was apparently made from painted wood and metal, explored pictorial relationships of colour and plane, whereas a lost construction of 1917 is more three-dimensional and textural, incorporating very varied materials such as celluloid, aluminium, glass and cloth.
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